Re: [Xen-devel] RFC/Patch: Support for other bootloaders

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tim,

Tim Deegan wrote:

> mbootpack: Shim between bzImage bootloader interface and Multiboot.
>            Has some assembler in it, but keeps the unpleasant
>             hack separate from the Xen codebase.
>  
This is the great solution.  We had been discussing this internally as 
the preferred mechanism to add this kind of support.  My only concern 
had been the file-size limit on TFTP reducing the potential size of an 
initrd image for dom0.  That's not a huge concern though.
Great job!

Regards,
Anthony Liguori



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